Note: Rhode Island General Law 17-1-3 allows an individual who has
missed the voter registration deadline to register and vote for
President/Vice-President only at their local Board of Canvassers on
election day.

Overview:Obama-Biden carried the Ocean
State with a plurality of 122,473 votes (27.46 percentage
points). In terms of visits, Mitt Romney visited on April 11,
before the primary; Jill Stein (G) visited on Aug. 18-19 and Oct. 11;
and Jim Gray (L) appeared at Brown University on Sept. 20.Obama
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Note:
Registration
deadline to vote a full ballot was Oct. 7, 2000. People
registering
to vote from Oct. 8 up to and including Nov. 7 (16,505 of the total
671,612)
were eligible to vote for President and Vice President only.

Official Results

+Gore/Lieberman
(Dem.)

249,508

(60.99)

Bush/Cheney
(Rep.)

130,555

(31.91)

Nader/LaDuke
(Grn.)

25,052

(6.12)

Buchanan/Foster
(Ref.)

2,273

(0.56)

Browne/Olivier
(Lib.)

742

(0.18)

Hagelin/Goldhaber
(NLP)

271

(0.07)

Moorehead/LaRiva(WWP)

199

(0.05)

Phillips/Frazier
(Const.)

97

(0.02)

McReynolds/Hollis
(Soc.)

52

(0.01)

Harris/Trowe
(SWP)

34

(0.01)

write-ins

329

(0.08)

Total........409,112

2000
OverviewGore comfortably won
Rhode
Island's four electoral votes, gaining a plurality of 118,953 votes
(29.08
percentage points). Nader's 6-percent showing qualified the Green
Party for ballot status in the next statewide election.